BOWIE (AFRICAN-AMERICAN) CEMETERY, Smith County, TX ***************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net 5 March 2001 ***************************************************************** Made available to the USGenWeb Archives by the East Texas Genealogical Society, P. O. Box 6967, Tyler, TX 75711 CEMETERY RECORDS OF SMITH COUNTY TEXAS, Volume III, Southwest Quarter, p. 200. Copied 1979. Updated 27 Sept 1983 by Sally McAdams Garner On private property. Seven stones found beyond the fence in the Rather Cemetery. Many graves marked with field stones, but the following were the only tombstones with writing: BOWIE - Infant dau of D. B. & Margret Bowie - b. & d. 30 Sept 1886 BOWIE, Dallas - son of D. B. & Margret Bowie - b. 3 May 1877 - d. 1882 age 4 yrs BOWIE, Harsie - b. 20 Oct 1880 - d. 1882 BOWIE - Infant dau of D. B. & Margret Bowie - b. & d. 24 June 1887 BOWIE, Amzona - dau of D. B. & Margret Bowie - b. 14 Sept 1882 d. 1886 - age 4 yrs 4 mos 12 days SHERMAN, J. - 7 Aug 1885 - 27 Oct 1886 (Stone - marked D.S.J.)